Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Articles made of tin or tin plate.
- noun A place where tin is smelted and rolled.
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- noun Products manufactured using
tin (the metal)
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Examples
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Vendors offer a variety of tinwork, hand-loomed fabrics and colonial furniture.
Food and frolic in and around Chapala and Ajijic, Mexico 1998
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Vendors offer a variety of tinwork, hand-loomed fabrics and colonial furniture.
Food and frolic in and around Chapala and Ajijic, Mexico 1998
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The father, an old, cheery, small piece of man-hood, could do everything connected with tinwork from one end of the process to the other, use almost every carpenter's tool, and make picture frames to boot.
Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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A similar effect is achieved with piercing, like that of traditional tinwork.
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